Paul Flaherty (musician)

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Paul Flaherty (born November 6, 1948 in Hartford , Connecticut) is an American saxophonist (alto, tenor and soprano saxophone) of free jazz and new improvisation music .

Live and act

Paul Flaherty has been active in the free improvisational music scene in the northeastern United States since the late 1970s. From Connecticut he played in private sessions and initially published his music on his own label, Zaabway ; the growing interest in free jazz in the 1990s gave him the opportunity to record several albums for the Cadence , Tulpa, Ecstatic Yod and Boxholder labels, as well as for his own label Wet Paint . In 1993 he recorded the album Fat Onions for Cadence , on which the drummer Randall Colbourne played. In the 2000s he often worked in a duo with drummers, so with Randall Colbourne in 2003, Marc Edwards and for the album Kaivalya Vol. 2 (2005) with Chris Corsano .

François Couture in Allmusic compares Paul Flaherty's style with Peter Brötzmann and Ivo Perelman . Critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton reminded Flaherty's violently quick-tempered and energetic playing of the free jazz outbursts of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Discographic notes

  • Fat Onions (Cadence, 1993)
  • Ringtaw (Zaabway)
  • Anahad (Cadence, 1998)
  • The Ilya Tree (Boxholder, 1999)
  • Sannyasi (Wet Paint, 2001)
  • Kaivalya Vol. 1 (Cadence, 2003)
  • Voices (Wet Paint, 2003)
  • Paul Flaherty & Randall Colbourne : Ironic Havoc (Relative Pitch, 2014)
  • Morfina (2017)
  • Lao Dan, Paul Flaherty, Randall Colbourne, Damon Smith: Live at Willimantic Records (Family Vineyard, 2019)
  • Paul Flaherty, Randall Colbourne , James Chumley Hunt , Mike Roberson : Borrowed from Children ( 577 Records , 2020)

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SURNAME Flaherty, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartford , Connecticut, USA